All About Westminster Abbey | FULL EPISODE | Time Team
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- During the 19th century, restoration work at the Abbey uncovered a previously unknown section of the church. The Team search for the lost sacristy in Westminster Abbey.
Series 17, Episode 1.
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As someone who can't afford all of the "Must Have" subscription services, I hope they keep posting these on CZcams for us common citizens.... You know, the one's that have to actually go to work to go to work.....
Yup
HAHA, I am feeling that. Someone will stop it though, as it is a pleasure to others.
Seek and ye shall find.............
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That is what many hoped the internet would be.
I live in Washington State, I so enjoy these programs and have learned so much. I started watching due to my ancestors who came from Feltwell, UK. KEEP these coming. I benign watch once I start they just play.
"They're super-rare. Absolutely wonderful. Find us some more, please." Classic Time Team.
Always good to see another Time Team, even though I've watched them all on BBC America.
When I visited London in my 20's - about 50 years ago - this American knew almost nothing about Westminster Abbey, except that Queen Elizabeth II had been crowned here when I was a child. Still, it impressed me deeply. Over the years, I've learned a bit more, and this episode adds to how blown away I am by the history of the place. That's what I remember about being there - you can feel the antiquity.
I had the same reaction to it -- walking around and seeing Handel's burial, then turning around and just stumbling into Chaucer, then wandering outside, looking down, and there was Muzio Clementi the composer. It's like a who's who of the most important names in history.
And now she's permanently buried there and her son is king. All things full circle eh?
So true. I wonder if, as she was being crowned, she realized that someday she be buried there for all eternity? Seems like a possibility....@@joshschneider9766
@@joshschneider9766 Queen Elizabeth II is buried at Windsor, not Westminster.
30:54 - I love his management style: "Abolutely wonderful! Find us some more please."
29:27 I love it when Tony gets technical 😂
Aside from the TV budget of "Time Team", it would seem that this sort of archeological work should be continued beyond just 3 days. What else is down there?
Agreed. I doubt they just fill everything in a go home at the end of day 3. Would be interesting to see what happens after the camera stops rolling.
They did an episode where they followed up with some of the digs that they did, and many of the important ones do get studied in more detail later.
@@bellehogel8665 my understanding is that that is what they do-bear in mind that they can't dig everything up and leave it, they have to document the finds and analyze/write up a report on them. A full excavation would require a lot more people and effort/funding and would likely be an extended commitment; this is really closer to a limited-purpose evaluation.
Visited the Abbey in 1996. Even thoughn I was raised without a religion, I still wanted to see it for the historical aspect, and being a Royalphile, lol. It was AMAZING.
I love going to see grand old churches. I may not be religious, but I love the history, art, and all else that comes with them is just fascinating to me! A shame that where I live in the US the oldest ones don't go much further back than the mid 1600's.
I visited London in 1977 and couldn't find the Abbey because it was completely covered in scaffolding. It was being sandblasted to clean all the coal muck off. My sister had to point me in the right direction.
Agreed. These building have so much history and such amazing architecture that anyone can easily appreciate them without being religious in any way.
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Bless those archeologists. I'm more than willing to watch them work and learn from them but I could never do their job.
This popped up on my CZcams feed and it was wonderful. I don't know where else I might have found this over the years, so I'm glad I ran into it here. More more! Riveting.
Love Bettany Hughes! She has some awesome documentaries.
This is one of my favourite episodes, and all the artefacts are amazing. Every time I pass by the Abbey I think of Time Team. Cheers! ❤️
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This has always been one of my favorite episodes! Even more so after my trip to Britain in 2012. Only now do I realize that my mom and I sat on the very same spot as Mick and Tony at 3:20 when we had a coffee break while visiting the Abbey.
The one thing that bugs me is Helen’s supposed confusion over what a Galilee Porch was, especially when she says that she had been asking others and they didn’t know either. I could have told her since it is clearly defined in my guidebook for the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. If it is such a common church architectural term that it’s in something written for the average tourist, then the experts she was consulting just weren’t that good.
This was extremely exciting! Going all the way back to Knut! Loved this episode. :)
I always love Time Team, but truly enjoyed this one since I actually visited Westminster Abbey back in 2007. I guess I was a few years early to catch Time Team at work.
I visited in 1982!:-)💜
Tony Robinson thank you for the interesting stories of Britain's 6 Cathedrals I enjoyed it tremendously I hope you will have more of the Cathedrals in time to come you are fantastic at what you are doing
Keith Davies Cape Town South Africa
I was so hoping the team would perform - and report results of - more than just carbon dating of the remains discovered. It would have been amazing to learn the origins of the person who was interred. Given how mobile people were around the time of the Saxons, my curiosity was piqued considerably!
(Tiny bit more detail: the person's bones were carbon dated to around AD 1025 - 1155, an adult male, 23 - 25 years old; mild calculus and very small dental carious lesion.)
There actually is a good bit of extended detail in the digs official report which is hosted by Wessex archaeology.
Amazing dig. Unbelievably interesting.
Very interesting - was just visiting WMA. However the skewed burials reminded me of a family joke. Grandmother was pointing out that all of the burials in the local cemetery were pointed east because it is from the east that the second coming is supposed to come from. An aunt who was Catholic pointed out the adjacent Catholic cemetery graves were pointed south. Grandma smiled and said I guess they will need to make a quarter turn.
Terrific dig!💜👍
GREAT JOB TIME TEAM TO FIND EVIDENCE OF 2 SAXON BURIALS AND MORE
AS ALWAYS===== AWESOME WORK TO ALL STAFF
10/3/2020 Saturday. beautiful show and beautiful people.
I'll watch anything with Tony.
The front porch at Durham is also called Galilee.
Buildings today just cannot compare to those our ancestors created. It is so sad that so many are lost
Erm, do you mean “lost” as in demolished, or “lost” as in re-purposed for something else?
I live in the United States, the southeastern “corner” of pennsylvania (the ‘burbs of Philadelphia).
There are many older houses in the town where i live, but most of them have been “converted” into apartments.
Nice to see Balders do so well in a new career :)
baldric
@ 7:55 all of these people in one of the most architecturally stunning buildings in the world and half of them are talking on their phones. If I hadn't just seen it for myself I wouldn't believe it.
It`s possible they`re listening to a guided tour I`ve seen devices handed out in other churches etc that are like a cell phone but have a narration
I like how the backhoe operator gently removes the sod so it can be put back later
It takes a very, very, very, very skilled operator to be able to dig with such precision.
Wonderful, gentle humor, fellowship, and the joy of discovery. please keep these lovely programs in the public domain
Thumbs-up 👍
What I want to know is if the tombs in the abbey have any remains or are empty. Edward the Confessor, Edward I, can we really expect any remains after all these centuries of looters?
I love history
Wonderful piece of architecture hiding centuries of dirty politics & crimes....
Stefan Paul ....royals and clergy.....you’ve got to love them (insert sarcasm here)
And that's different in what way from any other time in human history including our own ever so virtuous times?
@@timhazeltine3256 Right, we humans are such controversial - good & evil !
@@WyattRyeSway - Eta Pravda !
So grand!#
12:16 It seems to me if that you interpret that plan as a corridor with a right-angle turn, the total length of the hall meets the 120 ft length spec pretty closely. I'm surprised nobody commented on that in the video, because it stood out like a sore thumb to an amateur like me.
First aired June 28, 2010 (I think).
End of Part I. So what happened? I feel the need for some Curiosity Closure... 😔
Agreed Or, continue to phase II
I predicted those early Saxon graves were probably in the year 1066 and what did they come back with? Carbon dating stated that they were 11th century burials! I should have been in archaeologist!
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Sure, pilgrims probably nicked some bits of Edward's tomb, but it's a Catholic shrine, seems worth considering the Protestants might have stripped the gold from the Papist memorial. Stunned they didn't tear it down, actually.
*This is not an Abbey, this is a Cemetery* 😫😖💀👻
There is nothing unusual about people being buried around and even in the church. It's only from the 18th century on that separate cemeteries became commonplace and mandatory for a number of reasons (lack of space, hygiene, ...).
Poor Warwick needs a haircut. This is my dream profession, but at 60 it ain’t going to happen.
I have been thinking about that, too, but it's hopeless considering I am 72 & I can't get to my knees with all the arthritis in my back, hips & knees 🤣😘
Its Baldrick!!!
I’d love to explore the crypts
Beautiful production as always, but it occurs to me...the space between the buttresses and the sacristy? How is that not a robing room? There is no doubt that the exterior footprint has been changed many times, why not consider that the space between the main building and the corridor is the sacristy itself? Walled away from the main building with only an exterior channel to the interior of the building would suggest to me that it would have been highly secure as was pointed out in the first part of the program.
They didn't give any indication that geophys found anything to suggest that, but it would be interesting to see what might come out of another trench. This show always leaves you wanting more!
@@anne-droid7739 Excellent observation, but geophys looks for walls and ditches and a paved floor does not show up on the scans. A robing room would simply be blank space to geophys as we have seen in Roman excavations.
@@DodiTov I was thinking in terms of foundations heavy enough to support the kind of masonry in the other sacristy. A robing room wouldn't need that, though...but then again, another robing room wouldn't be necessary.
@@DodiTov Perhaps I misunderstood--are you not visualizing a wall for this room running parallel to the buttresses?
@@anne-droid7739 Well, yes! Look at the plan as laid out. The "corridor" could/might have had openings to access the corridor from this proposed "robing room". The buttresses we see today are an addition/renovation as seen from the inside with the processional arch. The ones we see tpday within the proposed room would have been added as the original structure was deleted.
Frankly, it does not make sense that there is a processional corridor *without* a robing room, especially if the corridor accesses two different chapels...as it does. Where did they put on the vestments for the processional? Clergy are not prone to just stroll about with heavy vestments from site to site. A sacristy located in that space would only be logical, with the corridor a staging area for the processional *from the sacristy*.
So mind blowing that they would just slap workshops right up against the wall like thatm talk about max efficiency 😂
I agree with you Mjosephine Fonzo of 3 mo. Previouse ..we need info of the outcome of old bones
Fantastic series, question please earlier Mick found steps and a ceiling of what was thought to be what you were looking for Why did you not drill the ceiling to see what’s under it ?? , I would of thought it would go down at least ten feet ?. Cheers .
The bust under the tall arch at 33:34 looks like a bust of Tony Robinson. LOL!!!
That early Saxon grave LOOKS SO TALL, so thin, was it a Giant? They don't give its dimensions.
Aah. Good ol' Baldrick.
Was there a part 2 to this? Did they just pack up after the 3rd day and go home?
I'm watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴🇬🇧
🎈wow
I dream about visiting London some day. 🚢🛫
At 35:50 I wonder if the author misspelled "gallery" of the sacristy?
30:54 "Good...but get more!"
At 2:00 all of them have the same hairstyle 😂😂😂
As a good French, I love gothic architecture !
Highly interesting but a nightmare to watch because of the 15 advertisement interruptions ...
Watch it on duckduckgo, no advertisements. :)
Probably just a coincidence, but when the bone lady mentioned finger bones, I thought of how some Churches had finger and toe bones as relics.
Never ceases to amaze me how the Time Team cameramen always found just the right angle for down-blouse shots in every episode.
Not on Phil🤔 how's that?
I think some of the ladies are very helpful showing lots of cleavage.
Love Bettany Hughes!
the commercials make youtube almost unwatchable....
not if you have addblocker ;)
@@commendatore2516, how do you get it? Do you have to pay for it?
@@mama2boys123 just google it, its all for free
Pihole to the rescue
@@mama2boys123 just scroll the cursor across screen at the beginning of episode then restart episode ad free viewing without having to google it.
My ancestors are there beginning with Henry VII and going back. My wife and I visited in September 2018. For me it's family history.
Aren't you special!
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So what did the radiocarbon dating of the bones show? Asking for a friend. Come on guys, don't leave us hanging.
The site has been fully excavated, because a new visitor center will be built there.
The bones are from the time of Edward the Confessor but not earlier.
www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/history/rediscovering-the-great-sacristy
Wait, how did the shrine of Edward the Confessor survive the Reformation?? I read somewhere that his shrine was lost after the hired men with pickaxes and hammers destroyed it!
because it was a royal church
i saw this place in a movie i think and i immideatly fell in love with the architecture, its one of the finest examples of European high gothic architecture
Wow! Time Team goes in looking for Henry III and comes out with Cnut!
Imagine this programme transmitted in the 1966 s The regional accents would have been found abominable.
English Aristocracy. I have Connections to the Spencers via my Family history, ancestors at the heart of Bedfordshire, Bucks, Northamptonshire, Warickshire..Maternal line. 🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪 distant cousin Nathan Field acted at the globe as a young boy, connections to Elizabeth 1st and William Shakespeare.
I have a suggestion for your word (galille) could be gallery?
0:14 I thought it was the anthem of the UEFA Champions League
That’s nothing. Mozart composed a minuet for Manchester U.
What kind of hat does Phil wear? I want one.
It's an Aussie Jakaru hat I think. My husband wears one that's a slightly different style, but same brand.
So Mick was quite wrong about the date of the burial, then... And Warwick was closer (though wrong as well).
Yeah mick was the junior professor on this one
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Wow so.nice to see a literal piece of my family history. More than two of my direct ancestors visited here, likely many times in their lives, as they were English lords who signed the Magna Carta. After of course successfully defeating the king of course.
You're in good company. Judging by the comments about 20% of the people here are related to an English king.
Cool story bro.
An American?
They all claim to have English royal's DNA!
Glad I'm Scottish!
@@jimm6095 🤣🤣🤣
Are they allowed to do such diggings in such historic place?
My thoughts exactly. I didn't think that would be possible 🤔
The authorisations and other preparations often take months of red tape wrestling. And there are rules what they can do or not. Take for instance the lawn, which is carefully scraped away to be put back in place after the dig.
He’ll always be baldric to me 😂❤
Very interesting. I do hope you remember to pray for the repose of the souls of the deceased whose remains are exhumed.
No subtitles. Sad.
You can select captions if you tap on the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the video.
Wonder what they did with the graves that they uncovered? Reburied?
Is John Milton buried there?
39:00 A human being, born, raised, fed; with hopes, dreams, joys, fears like all of us. A mouth that spoke, ate, drank, hopefully kissed in passionate love. Teeth that were part of someone’s smile, that someone picked after a meal or ran their tongue across in contemplation, that once broke forward as that person placed their baby teeth they had just wiggled out of their mouth under their pillow for the tooth fairy to collect.
And then, a thousand years later, someone else gets to touch them, while I, another thousand kilometres away, am able to watch it, well afterwards and again and again should I want to.
Mind-boggling doesn’t even begin to describe it. Not to mention what that person would have thought of it, had they known.
7:55 in the Abby. Why is everyone on their cell phone?
those are electronic tour guides
Better coverage 😂😂🤭
Love TT.
43:00 Harry Potter?
I'm in Kansas, USA and I can't comprehend how you lose a sacristy.......
Well it’s been 900-950 years. Things disappear over time. Look at the former colonies - they’ve lost an entirelly nation in less than four years.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 They've only lost their dignity, self-control and the respect of the rest of the world. Maybe they'll earn it back in the next 4 years.
@@AnotherWittyUsername. writing from the u.s.
Nice axxumption you’ve made about 330MILLION people…..
Take a shot everytime Tony says Geo-phyz
sounds like rocks in seltzer
Did they fill in all the trenches when they were done? This seems too important to cover up.
They often will fill the dig sites back in if there are no immediate plans to continue the dig by some other organization. They’ve mentioned it in other episodes: it’s far safer and more responsible for the finds/archeology to be re-buried than to be left, exposed to the elements.
Didn’t Edward the Confessor build Westminster Abbey?
half of these episodes are blocked in the UK. which I think is very hypocritical considering half the point of time team was to get the people of the UK interested in their history.
Was here October 2020
Fun fact. There were several "Ministers" built by the Saxons. All of them were pulled down by the Normans and either a better Cathedral was built or perhaps the site became a Monastery or an Abbey?
3:18 does Harry Potter movie was filmed there
🤔Westminster? Excavating something new besides another tile to the bucket loads already found? 🧐Lets look for another dig for something really old and untouched! ...I will never do that again! Watch this video! 😉
Is that right to disturb the graves just to find an architectural structure?
It’s one of the only UK Abbey’s left after the destruction of the reformation period of Henry VIII. He only left Westminster stand as his own relatives were entombed there.
Hopefully nothing will happen to Westminister!
Yes it’s true that the history of Britain is filled with colonial horrors
But there is just something about there history that is just interesting
I think Britain’s effect on the world will be something we feel for centuries to come
I visited the abbey twice, the detail is endless, there’s too much to see.